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Luke Dashjr | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 We don't check for it, but it would only abuse pool resources. Those devices can't mine. Not even in 2009 with a time machine
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bostonwine | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Understood as far as the relative futility of the hashpower.

When you say abuse pool resources, do you mean that it would unfairly draw from the pool rewards by “contributing” (with no chance of actually helping anyone), or that from a logistics, tech, or administrative view it would just create more headaches?

New to mining here (and waiting on some real rigs) so I appreciate the insight 🙏
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Luke Dashjr | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It would just add to our bandwidth/etc usage. Likely would never find a single share
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bostonwine | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Makes sense - thanks. Will wait for real machines 🫡
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BitBees | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Mine over matter!

I’ll show myself out…